Palestinofication

Description

“This prose poetry chapbook is my humble effort to bring attention to the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East — Israel’s engineered famine, its genocide, infanticide, and femicide of the Palestinian people. In addition, its total disregard for international law, and the targeting and smearing of anyone who dares to speak out against the brutality and barbarism. The Palestinian people have been systematically dehumanised by Western media outlets – over 18 000 children and 15 000 women (conservative estimates) have been killed by Israel so far. My intention with this collection is to humanise the Palestinian people through stories inspired by love, loss, struggle, frustration – the obscure, and the spiritual. I have read countless news articles, blogs, and have seen hundreds of disturbing videos and images online – a wickedness I believe the psyche was not designed for. Israel has traumatised us all, but may we live to see the Palestinian people free. I dedicate this book to the brave Palestinian people, and to everyone involved in the Palestinian cause.’’

The chapbook consists of ten prose poems and ten colour photographs; it is an attempt to combine moral outrage with artistic sensibility even as the merciless Israeli onslaught on the people and physical space of Gaza continues.